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I Walk Thru Walls

Past exhibition
March 8 - April 18, 2022
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I Walk Thru Walls

"Many men drove Magic, but Magic stayed behind. Many strong men lied, they only passed through Magic and out the other side."   - Leonard Cohen

 
More important than whether you believe in magic is the acknowledgment that magic exists only where there is belief. If one can't imagine a bridge between the visible and the invisible, then such a chasm can never be crossed. More than just a separate world, magic is a "middle" --  much like a life that is lived between the memorable. Magic's marrow is the poetry of the unspoken, the silence of the unsayable, and the ghost in the gap between translations. Magic isn't the mountain itself but rather the realization that the mountain top forms the bottom of an unfathomable sky.
 
"We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt."   - Jack Gilbert
 
The artist is the most qualified interpreter of the incantations of our spirit-selves. The unnamable, untethered essence of what is commonly called "spirit" is easy to catch, hard to hold but also almost impossible to portray in a painting due to the finite's inability to define the infinite. Spirit and humans were once Gods, Goddesses, and great things but because the ones that came before us believed themselves separate, we are caught in a cycle of always relearning and reinterpreting a planet we thought we would leave. Luckily, as the body fades the spirit flourishes and likewise in painting -- when greatness is articulated something transfers from artist to object that will forever reignite in each new viewing.
 
Every great painting is a postcard to our future selves, but also a breath and bookmark in the middle of our eternal story that is always unfolding. Magic, too, is a necessary pause and punctuation and, in its reflectivity, it removes any illusions of separation. Endings are necessary only for the written word. "Middles" are places where both sides are realized as one -- points of connectivity contracting and expanding. These perpetual places of passage are hallways to the heart and artistic arteries from which flow everything seemingly hidden and everything genuinely revealed.
 
- Introduction by Benjamin Terrell
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Works
  • Lysandre Begijn, Adhista Power of the Sun, 2022
    Lysandre Begijn, Adhista Power of the Sun, 2022
  • Lysandre Begijn, The Prophet, 2021
    Lysandre Begijn, The Prophet, 2021
  • JJ Cromer, The Death of Benign Authority, 2021
    JJ Cromer, The Death of Benign Authority, 2021
  • JJ Cromer, The Transactional Interpretation, 2020
    JJ Cromer, The Transactional Interpretation, 2020
  • Christopher Charles Curtis, Untitled, 2020
    Christopher Charles Curtis, Untitled, 2020
  • Christopher Charles Curtis, Untitled, 2020
    Christopher Charles Curtis, Untitled, 2020
  • Mary DeVincentis, Endymion and Selene, 2020
    Mary DeVincentis, Endymion and Selene, 2020
  • Mary DeVincentis, When the Stars Come to You, 2018
    Mary DeVincentis, When the Stars Come to You, 2018
  • Alexandra Duprez, Black arms (De dos), 2021
    Alexandra Duprez, Black arms (De dos), 2021
  • Alexandra Duprez, Dans l’eau (In water), 2021

    Alexandra Duprez, Dans l’eau (In water), 2021

  • ELEVATOR TEETH, every place, 2019
    ELEVATOR TEETH, every place, 2019
  • ELEVATOR TEETH, how it ended, 2021
    ELEVATOR TEETH, how it ended, 2021
  • Agnese Guido, In despite of that, keep on pushing on, 2020
    Agnese Guido, In despite of that, keep on pushing on, 2020
  • Agnese Guido, The last thought is coming, 2019
    Agnese Guido, The last thought is coming, 2019
  • Oliver McConnie, The Din of Capitalism, 2018
    Oliver McConnie, The Din of Capitalism, 2018
  • Oliver McConnie, The Tragedy Model (war), 2020
    Oliver McConnie, The Tragedy Model (war), 2020
  • Alex Müller, Die Zeit verweilen (The time lingers), 2016
    Alex Müller, Die Zeit verweilen (The time lingers), 2016
  • Alex Müller, Immer gab es nicht so viel Kaffee ( There wasn't always that much coffee), 2020
    Alex Müller, Immer gab es nicht so viel Kaffee ( There wasn't always that much coffee), 2020
  • Larysa Myers, Eyes to See, 2021
    Larysa Myers, Eyes to See, 2021
  • Larysa Myers, Open Your Eyes, 2021
    Larysa Myers, Open Your Eyes, 2021
  • Nereida Patricia, My Dreams Taught Me, 2021
    Nereida Patricia, My Dreams Taught Me, 2021
  • Nereida Patricia, Pigeon Lady, 2021
    Nereida Patricia, Pigeon Lady, 2021
  • Stefanie Popp, Aṣṭāṅga Namas-kāra (Secret Kingdom), 2021
    Stefanie Popp, Aṣṭāṅga Namas-kāra (Secret Kingdom), 2021
  • Stefanie Popp, Wielki Wòz (Paloma), 2020
    Stefanie Popp, Wielki Wòz (Paloma), 2020
  • Jenna Ransom, Bird In Night, 2022
    Jenna Ransom, Bird In Night, 2022
  • Jenna Ransom, Cornucopia, 2021
    Jenna Ransom, Cornucopia, 2021
  • ZD Sands, FVNGICAL MANTRAS, 2021
    ZD Sands, FVNGICAL MANTRAS, 2021
  • ZD Sands, FVNGICAL MANTRAS, 2021
    ZD Sands, FVNGICAL MANTRAS, 2021
  • Danilo Stojanović, The Earring Snatcher, 2020
    Danilo Stojanović, The Earring Snatcher, 2020
  • Danilo Stojanović, The Everlasting Question, 2021
    Danilo Stojanović, The Everlasting Question, 2021
  • Marenne Welton, Relics, 2020
    Marenne Welton, Relics, 2020
  • Marenne Welton, Skeleton & Bedframes, 2021
    Marenne Welton, Skeleton & Bedframes, 2021
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